British Museum <London> / Department of Oriental Antiquities [Editor]: First and second Egyptian rooms (London, 1874)

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5993 4). Wood; stamp for bricks, with incuse
hieroglyphs ; name of Amenophis 1., 18th dynasty,
5995 4). Wood; stamp, with incuse hieroglyphs
for bricks for the construction of the granaries of the
temple of Ptah.
Cases 42-43. The tools and utensils used by the ancient
Egyptians consisted principally of bronze and wood, iron
being rarely found in the sepulchres. Stone hammers of
an unknown date have been found near the mines of the
Wady Magarak, and some have supposed that the Egyptians
used flakes of dint, set in handles, as chisels to carve calca-
reous stone and other tender materials. The principal tools
of the mason were bronze chisels, wooden mallets, and
stone polishers; the carpenter used a wooden mallet, or
hammer, bronze saws, chisels, adzes, hatchets, drills, brad
awls, and other tools. The nails used were bronze; but
the sides of boxes and cofdns are generally secured by
wooden plugs, and for glue gum, or a kind of isinglass, was
employed. The tools were sharpened on a hone, and oil
poured from a horn for the purpose. Besides the tools
are various other objects employed for other uses unknown.
6026 (NAe(/* 1). Large oval baskets made of palm-fibres
neatly plaited, with vaulted cover, in which were con-
tained several of the tools exhibited on Shelf 2. Baskets
of a similar shape are made in Egypt and Nubia at the
present day. From Thebes.
6032 (SM/'l). Wood; mallet or hammer, bell-shaped,
such as are seen in the hands of masons and carpenters in
the pictures of the tombs. The present specimen was found
amongst the de&Hs of the pyramid of Abooser.
6109-19c(NAe(/*2). Bronze; nails.
6036 (^Ae(f 2). Skin; bag or pouch for holding tools.
Thebes.
OOSTfhSM/* 2). Horn ; flask for holding oil for sharpening
tools ; the horn is that of a cow, the bottom of sont wood,
and the spoon-shaped mouth of the same wood, tied with
cord made of palm-fibre.
6040 (NAe%/* 2). Acacia-wood ; drill bow. From Thebes.
6041 (/SM/*2). Wood; cap to hold drill. From Thebes.
6042-3 (SM/* 2.) Bronze; drill with wooden cylindrical
handle. From Thebes.
6045 (NA^/*2). Bronze ; chisel with wooden handle.
6049u-c (jSAeiy 2). Bronze; hatchet-heads from Tel el Ya-
houdeh.